AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (85W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +249%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

May 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

12

-

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

85W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tobago

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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